What The Coronavirus Means For IEPs This Year

 As a school year like no other gets underway, the laws surrounding individualized education programs remain unchanged and experts say parents should fight for the services their kids need. Read More >

Parents Fight To Record IEP Meetings

Parents are asking one school district to abandon a policy barring them from recording IEP meetings, arguing that it's their legal right to have a record of what is said. Read More >

Educator: How collaboration can help improve IEP process

 

In this blog post, special-education teacher and coordinator Mark Anderson writes about a collaborative review process that he and his colleagues use for writing individualized education programs. He shares surveys and forms they use and lists some of the data they bring to the table for meetings. "The increased accuracy of our collective investigation lends itself to more productive conversations about concrete goals and strategies that will better meet the student's needs," he writes. Chalkbeat/First Person blog (3/25)    http://ny.chalkbeat.org/2014/03/25/how-my-school-is-bringing-teachers-together-to-improve-students-ieps/